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Stop Iceland's Whale Hunting

Target: Jon Bjarnason, Minister of Fisheries, Iceland
Sponsored by: Care2.com

Iceland's whaling season began recently, kicking off a bloody whale hunt that could lead to the death of 100 minke whales.

Iceland is one of only two countries worldwide that still authorizes commercial whaling. About half of the whale meat from this year's hunt is intended for domestic sales in Iceland, while the rest of the quota will be sold to Japan.

Sign the petition and tell the Icelandic government to reduce this year's whale hunt quotas immediately – and to ban whaling forever.

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"The first batch of meat will be in stores by the weekend."
– Gunnar Bergmann Jonsson, manager of the minke whaler association.

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 75,000

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Dear Minister Jón Bjarnason,

I am deeply disappointed to hear that Iceland began its whaling season this year with a quota of 100 minke whales that can be killed from May to late September.

I strongly urge you to reconsider this plan by reducing this year's whale hunt quotas immediately and working toward a full ban on whaling in Iceland.

[Your personal comments will be added here.]

As a wildlife lover and environmentalist, I am concerned about the future of whales, especially as global warming causes rapid changes in their ocean habitats with unknown impacts on these beautiful and majestic creatures.

I am also concerned that your government is clearly sensitive to the impact of its whale hunting industry on tourism, since whaling is banned close to the harbor and the first whales are usually killed in a bay just outside of Reykjavik. Clearly a more effective effort to protect Iceland's tourism industry and popular whale watching businesses would be to ban the brutal whaling program completely.

And as a traveler and consumer, I would strongly consider visiting Iceland to whale-watch, but only if your country bans whaling.

Thank you for considering my comments. I look forward to your swift action to ensure a complete ban on whaling in Iceland.

Sincerely,
[Your name here]

We signed the “Stop Iceland's Whale Hunting” petition!

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3:51 pm PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, Australia

# 59,368:

3:07 pm PST, Nov 20, Joan E Loza Mobry, Wisconsin
"Animals Do Not Have A Voice Of Their Own. If We Do Not Stand Up And Speak For Them... Who Will?!"

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2:04 pm PST, Nov 20, Melanie Strassheimer, Ireland

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1:46 pm PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, France

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1:42 pm PST, Nov 20, Lou Durand, France

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12:05 pm PST, Nov 20, Susana Lax, Florida
Whale hunting is a cruel activity and its assumed economic benefit to Iceland is much less than that of investing in protecting whales and whale-watching.

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11:17 am PST, Nov 20, Maria Jain, Finland
Whale hunting is a cruel activity and its assumed economic benefit to Iceland is much less than that of investing in protecting whales and whale-watching.

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9:01 am PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, Ohio

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8:51 am PST, Nov 20, Jessie Chevin, France

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8:46 am PST, Nov 20, Mark Parsons, Germany

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7:32 am PST, Nov 20, Janice Sturdy, United Kingdom
PLEASE HELP PUT A STOP TO THE SLAUGHTERING OF THESE MAGNIFICENT ANIMALS, ITS CRUEL, BARBARIC AND INHUMANE, ACT NOW TO SAVE ALL OUR ANIMAL FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# 59,358:

6:04 am PST, Nov 20, Aleksandra Barth, United Kingdom
its immoral , cruel and completely unnecessary.

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5:25 am PST, Nov 20, Gautam Chakrabarti, India
Whaling, like ANY other kind of hunting, is an incomparably-brutal and sinful act, given that there's NO immediate food- and/or safety-angle; I'm sure the people involved in this nefarious profession can be retrained to earn better wages from some other line of work. Stop this brutality forthwith, please!

# 59,356:

4:55 am PST, Nov 20, Bogdan Dryomin, Russian Federation
Because it's so bad!

# 59,355:

2:44 am PST, Nov 20, Larissa Van den Berg, Netherlands

# 59,354:

1:56 am PST, Nov 20, Sue Anderson, Australia
We need these creatures to provide the balance in our waters

# 59,353:

5:40 pm PST, Nov 19, Tiffany Holsen, Pennsylvania

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5:06 pm PST, Nov 19, Michael Beasley, Australia

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4:43 pm PST, Nov 19, Amy Sanchez, Virginia
I am opposed to whale hunting for a few reasons: Firstly, the manner in which these whales are killed is torturous, brutal and agonizing. Secondly, whale meat is not a live or die sustanance. The people of Iceland or Japan can live healthily without it, they simply choose not to. I do not believe all people who eat whale fully understand the horrible way in which these beautiful and peaceful animals are slaughtered, but the government of Iceland definately knows and should make a stand in favor of ending whale hunts forever.

# 59,350:

4:18 pm PST, Nov 19, Alfonso Lopez, Mexico

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2:52 pm PST, Nov 19, Kristin Perin, Iowa
Because it's wrong to kill an anmial for no reason. Just to get meat there just like us and the also need to live. Also i think that they should also keep them alive. Because they are very independn't anmials and there just as smart as a human

# 59,348:

1:14 pm PST, Nov 19, Name not displayed, United Kingdom

# 59,347:

12:45 pm PST, Nov 19, Bethany Brown, Maine
This is a new century, why do we even still do this????

# 59,346:

12:00 pm PST, Nov 19, Jaclyn Mackenzie, Canada
Becuase it is horrible and disgusting and unneccesary

# 59,345:

11:15 am PST, Nov 19, Pauline Jones, United Kingdom

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8:59 am PST, Nov 19, Mary Morawska, Poland
Whales are an endangered species. Whaling is a barbaric practice that should be once and for all stopped. Iceland is a beautiful and interesting country, one I would like to visit ... but... while this barbaric act is kept alive, I'm afraid I will not visit as a tourist. Whale watching, on the other hand, inspires great interest and is something I would like to witness.

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6:06 am PST, Nov 19, Name not displayed, Cape Verde

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5:34 am PST, Nov 19, LIDIA WALICKA, Poland

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11:33 pm PST, Nov 18, Tommie Harris, Texas

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9:58 pm PST, Nov 18, Name not displayed, Australia
I think it is so cruel to hunt whales however valuable their body parts are. Think if how many extinct and endangered whale species there are. If I were Prime Minister or had power, I would ban whale hunting all over the world.

# 59,339:

5:18 pm PST, Nov 18, JOANNE ROACH, United Kingdom

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3:21 pm PST, Nov 18, Karisa Cotter, Arkansas

# 59,337:

1:30 pm PST, Nov 18, Name not displayed, Ireland
Stop killing whales!!!!

# 59,336:

1:08 pm PST, Nov 18, LIDIA GRZECHOWIAK, United Kingdom

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11:51 am PST, Nov 18, GODART STEPHANIE, France

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11:35 am PST, Nov 18, Yuri Heemskerk, Netherlands

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10:48 am PST, Nov 18, Name not displayed, Poland

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6:45 am PST, Nov 18, Carlos Losada, Spain

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1:48 am PST, Nov 18, Brillant Colette, France
Re-prenez votre intelligente manière de vivre des vingt dernières années et cessez ces massacres inutiles de baleines. Nous avons d'autres moyens de nourritures pour vivre et même je dirai que nous en avons en excès alors laissez ces douces baleines qui vivaient sereinement et qui, comme moi, n'ont certainement pas compris votre folie de 2009! Cordialement, colette Brillant.

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6:48 pm PST, Nov 17, Name not displayed, Canada
Whaling is a barbaric practice of the past, when it was a question of survival for humans. Now it is a question of survival for a very intelligent, socially advanced, unique and precious species. Do not contribute any more to its extinction please. Iceland benefits pityfully from this horrible practice in the very short term, but will bear the full cost of the backlash. You are destroying your country's image and expose yourself to a boycott from many people. Have the courage to uphold civilized principles, even if your population is still favorable to whaling. They need to understand the negative consequences resuming the whale hunts will inevitably have.

# 59,329:

4:45 pm PST, Nov 17, Ellie Shain, California

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2:05 pm PST, Nov 17, Jean Aeichele, Canada

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1:49 pm PST, Nov 17, Monika Olejniczak, Poland

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1:09 pm PST, Nov 17, Lah Matjaz, Slovenia

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11:41 am PST, Nov 17, Mateja Turčin, Slovenia

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8:02 am PST, Nov 17, Zoe Tiefenauer, France

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7:32 am PST, Nov 17, Inger Andersson, Sweden

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2:43 am PST, Nov 17, Maria Fongaro, Italy

# 59,321:

2:20 am PST, Nov 17, Name not displayed, Sweden
It barbaric

# 59,320:

1:52 am PST, Nov 17, Prohl Anne cecile, France

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5:32 am PST, Nov 16, Name not displayed, France

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4:35 am PST, Nov 16, Guy Poitou, France
Iceland was known for its respect to its environment and nature. Whales hunting is the exact opposit to nature préservation. I shall boycott Iceland until it stops whales hunting definitively. Guy.

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9:17 pm PST, Nov 15, Jeanette Dovheden, Sweden

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4:29 pm PST, Nov 15, Name not displayed, Connecticut
the whales are endangered.if we make them extinct,it will throw off the ocean ecosystem which in turn will throw off the rest of the balance of nature.And what right do we have to destroy these beautiful creatures?God didn't put them here for us to make them extinct.

# 59,315:

10:51 am PST, Nov 15, Barroso Julien, France

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9:25 am PST, Nov 15, Elena Stukalova, Russian Federation

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8:37 am PST, Nov 15, Name not displayed, Russian Federation
Da

# 59,312:

6:46 am PST, Nov 15, Nancy Juskowich, Pennsylvania

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5:59 am PST, Nov 15, Giraudet Pascal, France
c'est completement absurde de tuer soit disant au nom de la science ou pour des croyances ou pour leur graisse . on en a pas besoin pour vivre correctement les ressources vegetal nous offres d'avantages de bienfait .

# 59,310:

5:29 am PST, Nov 15, Roman Gur`evskiy, Russian Federation
are crazy people? The whale is living library of humanity.

# 59,309:

4:12 am PST, Nov 15, Лунев Василий, Russian Federation

# 59,308:

3:47 am PST, Nov 15, Andrej Svecov, Lithuania
Stop Iceland's Whale Hunting

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3:11 am PST, Nov 15, Daryl Haynes, United Kingdom

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12:24 am PST, Nov 15, Courcel Angelique, France
Because , i have a dream : i would like to swimm with the dolphins !!!!!!!!!,;But not with a dolphin in captivity or dead !!!!!!!!!!

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1:37 pm PST, Nov 14, BOYER Monique, France

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10:20 am PST, Nov 14, Chedoz Cyril, France
This is criminel to kill wale. A lot of humains are very bad and i would like to stop them.

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